Waiting

When Anne looks back from the plateau of her middle age, a handful of moments from her youth glow with stark clarity. A winter afternoon hidden beneath her father's workbench, the scent of fresh paint, and her mother's sharp reprimand introduce the clash between creation and expectation. Later, a night of whispered sorrow reveals the family's unspoken rivalries, as her brother John and a lover‑in‑waiting stir tension between duty and desire. The sudden death of her second brother casts a pall of grief that drives Anne to flee the house she once called home.

Now, years later, Anne works to piece together those fragments, sewing small dolls in the shade of an old apple tree and feeling a sudden, intoxicating urge to build something larger. The narrative follows her quiet determination to carve out her own sense of purpose amid the lingering shadows of parental disappointment and sibling rivalry. Listeners will hear a portrait of a woman who learns that the joy of making—once dismissed as a man's domain—can become a quiet act of reclamation and hope.